Digitimes: Apple is working on a slim bezel, 7-inch iPad mini

It’s not even a week after the new iPad was announced and hit-or-miss Asian site Digitimes is hard at work conjuring up more rumors about the iPad mini. According to the latest report, Apple is looking to adopt a slim bezel display for its rumored 7.85-inch iPad mini. Unlike its bigger brother, the tiny tablet is not expected to have a retina display which will help keep the price to an affordable $249-299. Digitimes believes this smaller size iPad will compete with Android tablets from Samsung and Amazon.

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out Apple was exploring the idea of a smaller, less expensive tablet. Companies often test out different designs, different features to hit a different target market. In this case, a cheaper iPad would appeal to education and developing markets, but rumors and conjecture like this are no guarantee that Apple is planning to release such a device. Knowing Apple’s history, it would only venture into the 7-inch tablet market if it could introduce a tablet with value beyond competing with Android. There would have to be a new angle or revolutionary technology that would drive Apple to add another tablet to its portfolio.

This would indeed be a good marketing strategy by Apple and will probably boost their sales quite a bit. Many buyers go for other tablet manufacturers because of the higher price of the iPad, be it the new or the old iPad. With a smaller model you could have access to the mid-range tablet market, making extra profits with a smaller investment.

Helmski

It’s an iTV remote.

ICE

bullshit, this is the same stupid idea that people kept saying about the iphone mini, not gonna happen, doesn’t fit apples mo